With the objective of developing new solutions to the societal challenges of tomorrow, the RISING Architecture Week 2017—held in Aarhus, Denmark, between the 11th and 15th of September—consisted of a series of events, exhibitions, and the RISING Exchange Conference, focuses on how architecture and construction can help to rethink existing paradigms.
We had the opportunity to visit the city and to talk with Jan Gehl, Pauline Marchetti, Ruth Baumeister, Daan Roosegaarde, John Thackara, Jacques Ferrier, Stephan Petermann, and Shajay Bhooshan, some of the speakers who contributed their visions on these issues. Thinking about a future in which different actors will be relevant in the process of addressing such challenges, we took the opportunity to make them question themselves: Are architects really needed?
Every time you put any brick down anywhere, you manipulate the quality of life of people. (…) If you just make form, it’s sculpture. But it becomes architecture if the interaction between form and life is successful.
– Jan Gehl.
Check all their answers in the video above, and see some pictures of their lectures in the Official Facebook of the event.
The interviews were filmed and edited by Julie Due Steffensen and conducted by ArchDaily’s Content Editor José Tomás Franco. The RISING Architecture Week will be held again in September 2019; find out all its details here.